Defendant Released a Group of Imprisoned Neighbours
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“I shared food with these imprisoned men when an unknown uniformed policeman came and said that men from these two rooms must go downstairs. And then Saric showed up in front of the building and told them, ‘Neighbours, go to the city, don’t shoot at your neighbours, we did not shoot at you,’” testified Nedeljko Milic, former reservist policeman.
Milic said that his superior was Slavko Milinkovic, also known as Boban.
The witness said that he saw defendant Saric for the first time in spring 1992. He claimed that Saric never introduced himself as chief, although some called him that.
“We considered him in charge, although he never gave out an order to me. Boban was probably his subordinate,” said the witness.
The Prosecution has charged Saric with separating prisoners into three groups on June 21, 1992. He separated 60 prisoners into the first group, who were moved by force to Sarajevo, 26 Bosniaks into the group that was transferred to the Bunker camp in Vogosca, while he separated 11 people into the third group who were later killed in Skakavac in Sarajevo.
The court was also read the statement from Milorad Zuber, who passed away last year. The Prosecutor, Munib Halilovic, said he wanted to use his statement and the statement of Nedeljko Milic to contest the claims by the defence that defendant Goran Saric was not the chief and that he did not run the police and make decisions.
Witness Zuber, who in spring that year was a member of the Kosevo Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), was sent to Jagomir to keep guard “because some Muslims were arrested and imprisoned.” The witness specified in a statement from February 2012 that the brigade commander was Miroslav Kraisnik.
As specified in the statement, imprisoned men were held in the six locked rooms in Jagomir.
The witness said that on one occasion his neighbour asked him to try and extract Atif Pandzic, and after that Zuber went to see Goran Saric, who let Pandzic and S-5 go to their homes.
The Prosecution will make its closing argument on June 12, and the Defence on June 24.
The verdict will be passed to Saric in early September.
